Karen Beckwith Quotes

Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

I think women bring a different perspective and that we tend to be more collaborative in our approach. I served in the Iowa Senate back in the '90s, when there weren't a lot of us. At the time, I think there were five or six women, and two or three of them were Republicans and two or three were Democrats.

Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

I know that many honorable members have viewed the advent of women to the legislative halls with something approaching alarm;

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart.

Do I think I am being held to a different standard than a man who would be in this exact same race with the exact same story? Might be? Yes. But that’s reality.

In the last 12 years we studied, 24 percent of the Judges of the Supreme Court Were women. Yet 32 percent of the interruptions of judges in Supreme Corutr hearings by other judges were interruptions of women. [Only] four percent of the interruptiojn of other judges were made by women [Supreme Court Justices.

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

Gender used to be a barrier for women to overcome if they wanted to be in politics, but today in Taiwan the situation is somewhat different. I think there is even a preference for a woman candidate, and in local elections, we have seen that younger, better-educated female candidates are overwhelmingly preferred by the voters.

In countries like ours, women enter politics in mourning clothes.

Not regarded as the equals of men.

Women are unfit for parliament and parliament is unfit for them.

The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations.... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.